Karl Weierstrass
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Karl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstrass was a German mathematician often cited as the "father of modern analysis". Despite leaving university without a degree, he studied mathematics and trained as a school
Karl Weierstrass
Sofya Kovalevskaya
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Sofya Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya was a Russian mathematician who made noteworthy contributions to analysis, partial differential equations and mechanics. She was a pioneer of equality for women in mathem
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…the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin, which later became the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. In 1870, at the age of fifty-five, Weierstrass met Sofia Kovalevskaya whom he tutored privately after failing to secure her admission to the university. They had a fruitful intellectual, and kindly personal relationship…
Kovalevskaya in 1880
The excerpt from the 1850 birth register listing, in Russian Cyrillic, the birth of Sofia on January 3rd (Old Style date)
The family estate in Polibino where Kovalevskaya was raised; the building now houses a museum which exhibits her personal belongings, manuscripts and books
Kovalevskaya at 18 years